On 31/01/18 05:13, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > The 'noreplace-paravirt' option disables paravirt patching, leaving the > original pv indirect calls in place. > > That's highly incompatible with retpolines, unless we want to uglify > paravirt even further and convert the paravirt calls to retpolines. > > As far as I can tell, the option doesn't seem to be useful for much > other than introducing surprising corner cases and making the kernel > vulnerable to Spectre v2. It was probably a debug option from the early > paravirt days. So just remove it. > > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Juergen
